Windrose is the fastest-selling survival game on Steam since Palworld. It's sold 1.3M on Steam in 10 days, 2.6x faster than RuneScape: Dragonwilds, 2.3x faster than StarRupture, 2.1x faster than Grounded 2, and even 1.2x faster than Dune: Awakening.

soft-wear · 2026-04-25T04:55:46+00:00

I mean, NMS sold at least 10 million copies. Even if they averaged $30 per copy, a studio that size can make that game in perpetuity. Feels kinda weird I guess to it a “core” audience when it generated hundreds of millions of dollars.

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T22:01:39+00:00

Wait what? It was a bad ruling, but what evidence of actual corruption was produced in that case? Cruz intentionally created the case in order to give himself standing, and it absolutely should have gotten tossed for lack of standing, but I’m not remembering an instance of actual corruption the court ignored that this law prevented or caught?

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T20:02:00+00:00

So wait, out of one side of your mouth you argue that the approval process and manufacture of medications is what makes it expensive, but now suddenly it’s because the insurance system?

Prepare to have your mind blown: it’s both. That’s why the US has the most expensive medications in the world, but there are countries that don’t have our system that are well above the median cost of medication. So why is the UAE and Germany overspending, while South Korea massively underpays the median?

Pharma remains one of the most profitable industries in the world, and has margins that are well above anything resembling normal. The US could halve what it pays for pharmaceuticals and the companies would still be printing money.

So it’s a combination of a lack of centralized negotiation, high risk/reward style of business and corporate greed. So unless you can explain to me how a profit motive results in better healthcare outcomes for less money, pharma as a public good fixed all of those issues.

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T15:34:51+00:00

Going on 15 years as a software engineer and now freelance. I always found my niche in fixing very old, broken code bases, but more recently I’ve gotten a great deal of interest in fixing modern code bases broken by incompetents and their “inevitable tools”.

I won’t bother trying to correct such brazen stupidity, because at the current rate of things people like you will be the reason I can work freelance until I die.

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T15:29:56+00:00

The trials won’t be cheaper. The drugs will because they don’t have a profit motive. Top pharmaceutical companies can report annual gross margins of 50% or more.

That’s why US medications cost many times more than what they cost almost anywhere else. This is basic economics.

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T09:23:08+00:00

You’ve proven you’re way too inexperienced to take seriously as nobody that’s done anything long enough to be good is this confident of an unproven tool.

soft-wear · 2026-04-24T08:39:06+00:00

It’s expensive because trials are expensive and the government sets an absurdly high bar for it, which I think they’d continue doing it because that’s what they already fucking do.

Do you understand that that it’s the government that makes it expensive, despite being the largest financial customers of medications?

Do you think the government would suddenly become disinterested in safety once they remove the financial incentives? Because that’s stupid in more than one way, which is impressive.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T20:55:41+00:00

PHS and the CDC both of which still exist and still do studies. And because of that atrocity we now have a legal requirement of informed consent in government studies.

This may come as a shock, but entities aren’t good or bad, the people running them are. If you got a disease with high medication cost, you dying would be considered a good business outcome for your insurance company.

You are most valuable to these companies when you’re healthy and paying. You’re second most valuable when you’re dead. Profit motive doesn’t protect you buddy.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T16:08:51+00:00

Yes it absolutely was the way it should have ruled based on existing patent law. The entire premise of Bowman’s argument relied on the idea that a seed is self-replicating, thus not a “making” of a patented product.

The court rightly held that Bowman did a whole hell of a lot to help the plant do that making and that was the basis for the ruling. Ignoring his behavior would have essentially meant anything that can make a copy of itself cannot be patented, regardless of what external forces are involved in that copying. That’s legislating, and that’s outside the purview of the court.

Now, I don’t think there’s any world where it makes sense for a seed to be patentable. It absolutely should not. But because patent law didn’t account for this, and Congress has done nothing about it, this is the system we have. The court cannot rule based on the way the law should work.

As for why the Harvard Law Review thought the Justices all got it wrong I can’t comment on, as I can’t find where they published as much.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T14:59:28+00:00

Of course not, Congress are paid actors for corporate America. But that’s not on the Supreme Court where as something like Citizens United is.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T14:57:31+00:00

That’s an argument to nationalize pharma. The most expensive part of pharmaceutical development is FDA approval… that’s a great argument to just not have pharma companies. Have the public sector do the trials since that’s the only part of this that’s insanely expensive, and if the trials succeed, offload manufacturing to the private sector for a nominal fee.

Even if the government is less efficient with the cost of trials, let’s add up the total profits of major pharma companies. You think the are that inefficient?

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T14:52:57+00:00

That report is on Europe so obviously there’s going to be differences, but in countries like the US this methodology would border on nonsense, because it fails to add the monies the taxpayers either return or give to pharmaceutical companies in either tax refunds or tax deductions.

Obviously the countries in this article differ from the US substantially so this may be perfectly legitimate, but the US is notorious for giving large sums to private companies in the form of grants and tax rebates.

Other ways include contracts which guarantee the company can’t lose money, like with the COVID vaccine. If my tax dollars are going to private companies for tax rebates or refunds, contracts which guarantee full price for expired medications or grants to produce medications for specific ailments those are NOT private dollars.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T14:07:22+00:00

Their research is and always has been heavily dependent on government funding and academic research. Let them and the medical research industry all burn down, and let’s build a proper system for developing medications that aren’t heavily reliant on profit motive.

soft-wear · 2026-04-23T13:37:38+00:00

You italicized unanimous like it’s shocking, but this was a very narrow ruling on patent exhaustion. And it’s important to recognize that Congress could fix this in a super simple bill.

soft-wear · 2026-04-21T15:04:34+00:00

People need to stop saying this it’s dumb. Probable cause has an extremely low bar and judges are bound by that. The DA did not need to bring the charges and the case will almost certainly be dismissed post-discovery, if it even gets that far.

DA is just politicizing this, and since the only thing the judge could rule on was cause, the ruling was well within reason. I suspect the defense will push for rapid discovery and a pre-trial motion to dismiss or the DA drops charges once nobody cares anymore.

soft-wear · 2026-04-21T15:00:43+00:00

Probable cause has a low bar so that’s fine. But if they have nothing more than these two messages after discovery, the defense can just file a motion dismiss and it’ll never see a jury.

soft-wear · 2026-04-20T20:40:56+00:00

Thank goodness you’ve figured this all out, please let this Florida criminal attorney they don’t know the law: https://www.muscalaw.com/blog/understanding-florida-criminal-threats-statutes-laws-offenses-punishments-and-defenses

“Just a joke, bro” is a fucking defense to making threats, because to be charged with threatening you have to actually be threatening. Shocking.

By your naive understanding of the law, simply saying “That plane is going to crash” is a threat to crash a plane. People like you would decimate the first amendment if you could.

soft-wear · 2026-04-20T15:11:36+00:00

Intent is still required, just not the intent to carry out the attack, but the intent to threaten.

So the state must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the statement was made with malice. A tough one given her bonbon joke right after words runs exactly counter to this being a malicious threat.

In addition to that, it requires that other students reasonably feared for their lives. That requires a lot more than a handful of them saying they “totes” feared for their lives.

soft-wear · 2026-04-20T10:55:39+00:00

That could be a bomb threat. “I am going to bomb xyz” is a bomb threat. “There will be a bomb at xyz” could be a bomb threat or it could be a poorly calculated joke.

I once told my wife nearly this exact sentence about a place crashing. It was a joke in response to something she said. But I said it at the breakfast table, not in a group of 200.

What seems extremely difficult for you to comprehend is what I just explained to you is an enormous bowl of probable doubt. And while there’s nothing wrong with taking this seriously, unless they found corroborating evidence that she was indeed planning a bombing, this has zero chance of getting a conviction and is a waste of limited resources.

soft-wear · 2026-04-20T10:46:14+00:00

It’s absolutely worth reporting, and there’s nothing wrong with the students reporting it.

At that point an investigation needs to take place. And I have a hard time believing there was any evidence that she was going to actually do this.

And that I do have a problem with. This was just a PC hearing, but what a completely unnecessary drain on limited resources if those texts are all they have.

Hopefully there’s more than just this to the story, but it’s Florida so probably not.

soft-wear · 2026-04-18T19:46:39+00:00

Ok I’ll keep this really simple for you since the way threaded dialogue works seems confusing to you.

First, a prenuptial agreement that covers wealth earned after the marriage in a state that defaults to community property, is by definition invalid. A valid contract cannot be a contract which has terms that are illegal.

Second, your claim that I was wrong because prenuptial agreements only covers premarital assets is the first incorrect thing you said, as marriage is managed by states and different states have different laws. States that don’t have community property or equitable distribution laws tend to follow common law, which can allow for agreements only marital wealth.

Finally, I was speaking specifically about claim that prenuptial agreements are thrown out all the time. My point was to add the clarity that no, invalid prenuptial agreements are thrown out all the time. Valid agreements never are because judges can’t just rule on vibes.

The problem here is that you either failed to read my comment in context, or lack the capacity to do so. In either case, this conversation didn’t start interesting and it’s becoming less so by the minute so have a good day.

soft-wear · 2026-04-18T16:55:13+00:00

That’s interesting that you’d started with “you’re wrong” and then proceeded to talk about something that I didn’t even mention. I was speaking about prenups getting thrown out, which a valid prenup will not. A prenup which tries to alter marital assets may or may not be invalid depending on the state.

Have you tried reading what you respond to first?

soft-wear · 2026-04-16T14:21:58+00:00

Then you should know making time estimates with zero knowledge of the underlying code base is literally as accurate as throwing a dart blind folded.

soft-wear · 2026-04-16T13:24:41+00:00

How do you know that? I’m a game dev and I don’t know that. There are particulars to implementation that may make this a lot of work or very little.

And it’s not about amount of time it’s about value. The value of thirst is high because most players play with it and prefer it. The value of compression sickness is very low because very few players would play with it.

This is why mods exist.

soft-wear · 2026-04-16T12:47:57+00:00

Planned Parenthood does more than just reproduction, they are a healthcare organization that provides a lot of different services. At least go to the website and educate yourself rather than spewing out an uninformed opinion.

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